Bennington, VT - Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014: Recovering addict Hailey Clark, 20, left, keeps the door open a crack so that she can smoke. Clark was one of many people arrested in the State's largest drug sweep. Clark lives with friend and fellow recovering addict Stacey Brandmeyer, right, 22, in a public housing apartment.

Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire state of the state address in January to what he called a "full-blown heroin crisis" in Vermont, where...
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Bennington, VT - Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014: Recovering addict Hailey Clark, 20, left, keeps the door open a crack so that she can smoke. Clark was one of many people arrested in the State's largest drug sweep. Clark lives with friend and fellow recovering addict Stacey Brandmeyer, right, 22, in a public housing apartment.

Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire state of the state address in January to what he called a "full-blown heroin crisis" in Vermont, where twice as many people died of heroin overdoses in 2012 as in the year before. Mr. Shumlin's address focused new attention on the problem, which has hit every corner of the state.

CREDIT: Cheryl Senter for The New York Times
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